Elon is a bullshit artist but some people are letting negative polarization rewrite their brain to become against objectively good things that he has unfortunately branded himself as being associated with. Actually working self driving cars are obviously good and will likely save many lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Elon is a bullshit artist but some people are letting negative polarization rewrite their brain to become against objectively good things that he has unfortunately branded himself as being associated with. Actually working self driving cars are obviously good and will likely save many lives.
I think the self-driving cars have a higher bar to clear than a human driver because one bad driver is one bad vehicle, while one bad AI driver is thousands (or more) of bad vehicles, but ultimately technologically-driven navigation will be much safer and is something we must should invest in.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I think the self-driving cars have a higher bar to clear than a human driver because one bad driver is one bad vehicle, while one bad AI driver is thousands (or more) of bad vehicles, but ultimately technologically-driven navigation will be much safer and is something we must should invest in.
Pope Leo has now repeatedly made clear that he believes US corporate media's coverage of the Trump immigration war is not professionally responsible or correct and that it accepts Trump's pretexts for action as truth whereas they are palpable lies.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pope Leo has now repeatedly made clear that he believes US corporate media's coverage of the Trump immigration war is not professionally responsible or correct and that it accepts Trump's pretexts for action as truth whereas they are palpable lies.
Today, Tucson City Council is discussing a proposed ordinance that would create a new offense of "drug-related loitering". Indications that could trigger an arrest for this include officer knowledge of a prior drug conviction, or the so-called "fent fold." tucsonaz.hylandcloud.com/221agendaonl...
Today, Tucson City Council is discussing a proposed ordinance that would create a new offense of "drug-related loitering". Indications that could trigger an arrest for this include officer knowledge of a prior drug conviction, or the so-called "fent fold." tucsonaz.hylandcloud.com/221agendaonl...
I actually don’t happen to care for AIPAC’s tactics the past few cycles but they’re far from the largest PAC in the country and I’m getting a little pissed off at them being made into the George Soros Boogyman of the far left.
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Whole lot of people who claim to be capable of recognizing antisemitism in right wingers name checking Soros can't seem to grasp this.
Two things can be true: informal systems of retributive justice or corporal/capital punishment would be *vastly* worse than today's system, AND we should not let a failure of imagination or hope extinguish the idea that prisons aren't an inevitable feature of human society.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Two things can be true: informal systems of retributive justice or corporal/capital punishment would be *vastly* worse than today's system, AND we should not let a failure of imagination or hope extinguish the idea that prisons aren't an inevitable feature of human society.
Squaring the circle of "how do you protect everyone without immiserating* some" is a maybe impossible task but I view it as anchoring to universal human dignity rather than inevitable trespass against that dignity.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Squaring the circle of "how do you protect everyone without immiserating* some" is a maybe impossible task but I view it as anchoring to universal human dignity rather than inevitable trespass against that dignity.
*including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.
I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."